Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.
It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.
It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
We have very strong succession plans across all group companies. But we do not comment on it. The retirement age is 60 years, but it does not apply to family professionals who work in the business.
The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.
I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.
There are always going to be people who are experts in security or end-user devices or collaboration or databases. That's not going to go away. But what's the reason all of these professions come together? To help the business transform itself.
Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.
The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.
It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.
I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.
We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.
I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.
I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else.
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.
One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about what they're doing.
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
I have been in this business for over 30 years. I've seen a lot of development programmes. They don't all run smoothly.
In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.
In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.
We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.
We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.
Acting is a tough business to break into.
No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.
For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.